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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 19, 1996Knox County, Indiana

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1996, 3:21 PM EST for Knox County, Indiana. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 1996, 3:21 PM EST (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1996, 4:00 PM EST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Knox County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 323 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 581 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 595 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 11:45 AM EST, 3 hours 36 minutes before

INZ037-039-040-046>048-054>056-291800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1145 AM EST WED JUN 19 1996

...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE INDIANAPOLIS METRO AREA...

A CLUSTER OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING THROUGH THE
INDIANAPOLIS METRO AREA. THESE STORMS CONTAIN HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY
WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. WINDS GUSTED TO 48 MILES AN HOUR AT
1140 AT THE INDIANAPOLIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.

|THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR.
PEOPLE IN THE INDIANAPOLIS METRO AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING CONDITIONS FROM THESE STORMS.

MES

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 12:27 PM EST, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 11:55 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Marion	2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.